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Good things surprise me. Bad things annoy me. I’m used to dealing with the latter.”
Never in his life had Torin felt such a strong urge to protect an individual. Yes, it was finally happening. The moment he’d hoped for, waited for, prayed to the cursed nonexistent Goddess for… He was falling, and it was both terrifying and sublime.
Ah, you’re going to ruin me, human. Her soft, expressive face was a salve for his mounting anger. He so wanted to kiss her luscious pink lips, even when they were set in a determined line.
Fate, you are a cruel Goddess indeed. “I will return.” He removed his hand from Seph’s cheek and left her waiting in the shadows. “Make sure you do. I need you.” Her voice drifted after him, a sultry, secret whisper.
You do not touch my mate!
His heart protested furiously. I can’t let her go! But then the cold veil intruded on his mind, and all of his brutal training kicked in. If he didn’t let go of her now, she would die. I’m sorry, my love.
“Where is she?” he roared, unsheathing his claws, sinking them into Bartharran armor and flesh. “You can’t take her away. She is mine!”
Suddenly, Torin felt like a part of his soul was missing, and if he didn’t get it back… “I’ll kill every single one of you,” he hissed in Kordolian, a great darkness spreading through his heart. His loss, his fault, his fucking madness. To have found the one he’d been yearning for all his life, and to be forced to give her up in almost the same breath… It nearly destroyed him.
He was just a man with a heart, but his heart had been stolen, and if he didn’t get it back… He would destroy everything.
“Unfortunately, I don’t have magical healing saliva like those mythical creatures from your Earth stories,” he said, his voice infused with gentle irony. Sounding more like his old self. “What are they called again? Va… vamp…” “Vampires.”
“Home,” she whispered, the word sounding so fucking good as it dropped from her lips. “Home is with you.” “Yes,” he agreed, stroking the nest of chaos that was her hair. “Yes it is.”
“That it can,” Torin murmured as he lay her down, bringing himself over her luscious body. He leaned in and kissed her fiercely, still not quite believing how lucky he was. He had found his mate.
“Is it really so hard to believe that I am obsessed with you? That I will guard you with my life and become insanely jealous should any other man so much as look at you? That there is no room for any other in my heart?”
